{"podcast":{"title":"In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg","slug":"in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg-1437027","podcast_index_feed_id":1437027,"rss_url":"https://iono.fm/rss/chan/2298","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk","image_url":"https://cdn.iono.fm/files/p4/logo_2298_20250910_203748_1400.jpeg","author":"BBC","episode_count":52,"summary":"Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas - including topics drawn from philosophy, science, history, religion and culture.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg-1437027"},"episode":{"title":"While you wait: The Death of Reading (from The Global Story)","slug":"while-you-wait-the-death-of-reading-from-the-global-story","published_at":"2026-01-29T09:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg-1437027/while-you-wait-the-death-of-reading-from-the-global-story","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg-1437027","url":"https://iono.fm/e/1640541","audio_url":"https://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/https/vpid/p0msdq4w.mp3?p=rss","summary":"While you wait for the new season of In Our Time with Misha Glenny, we’re introducing you to The Global Story, a new daily podcast from the BBC. In this episode, writer and voracious reader James Marriott discusses the so-called 'death of reading'. He argues that we may be entering a post literate age – shaped by addictive screen culture, fragmented attention, and an overflow of trivial or unreliable information. The conversation traces how the 18th century 'reading revolution' helped shape the modern world, and what its decline could mean for education, culture, and democracy today. If you enjoy this episode, you can find new instalments of The Global Story every day wherever you get your BBC Podcasts.","meta_description":"While you wait for the new season of In Our Time with Misha Glenny, we’re introducing you to The Global Story, a new daily podcast from the BBC. In this e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1750,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg-1437027/episodes/while-you-wait-the-death-of-reading-from-the-global-story/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-our-time-with-melvyn-bragg-1437027/while-you-wait-the-death-of-reading-from-the-global-story.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}